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Open Access Dissertations

The University of Rhode Island archives and provides access to doctoral dissertations through DigitalCommons@URI. Dissertations prior to 2013 may or may not be available here. Please consult the URI library catalog to see all titles. For those dissertations available only in print, the library can usually scan a copy upon request.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

Cao, He. Theoretical and experimental study of fiber-optic fluorescence immunosensors

Cardinale, Mary K.. Piety and intolerance: A rhetorical inquiry into the constituting of Christian fundamentalist identity

Casey Torrey, Susan Patricia. An analysis of Rhode Island child opportunity zones through the lens of whole-school change

Cho, Jung-Hee. Optimal exploitation of Atlantic herring stocks in United States of America: Bioeconomic model for Atlantic herring

Cleary, Thomas Terrence. Providing phonemic awareness instruction to pre-first graders: An extended-year kindergarten program

Correia, Stephen. The Potential Clinical Utility of Methods for Estimating Prior Standing in Specific Cognitive Domains: A Feasibility and Illustration Study

Desai, Yogita. A MECHANISTIC STUDY OF FLOW AND COMPRESSION BEHAVIOR OF PHARMACEUTICAL POWDERS

Eriksen, Matthew. The electronic fishbowl as a community of inquiry: Management passion in the XXIst century

Green, Angel Yvonne. Street Theater

Hallak, Maram. Nonviolence training program evaluation

Hanafi, Mamduh M.. Essay on foreign and domestic investors

Hardro, Peter Jason. Development of materials for the rapid manufacture of die cast tooling

Hartmann, Paul Christian. Contaminants in Narragansett Bay sediments

Henry, Timothy Michael. Using JPEG2000 compressed images for foveated texture mapping in limited memory environments

Huffman, Scott Wade. Biological vibrational spectroscopy: From a cellular to a sub-cellular level

Jeng, Shih-Ching. Efficiency Issues in the Financial Services Industry Worldwide

Johnson, Janet L.. Integrating the Transtheoretical Model: A Quantitative Analysis in the Area of Sun Exposure

Jones-Hudson, Vonda Dionne. Movin' on up to the 21st century: Multiculturalism… making the abstract applied

Jordan, Patricia Janet. Development, validation and factorial invariance of transtheoretical model measures for recovery from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa

Kajiji, Nina. Adaptation of closed form regularization parameters with prior information to the radial basis function neural network for high frequency financial time series

Kim, Gi-Ho. Impedance analysis of an enhanced piezoelectric biosensor

Kingston, Sharon. The relationship between a sense of community and social disorganization and neighborhood deprivation

Klein, Ilene. The relationship of community and prevention coalition characteristics to rates of adolescent substance abuse

Kogut, Stephen Jon. HYPOGLYCEMIC DRUG UTILIZATION AND ADHERENCE TO PRESCRIBED REGIMENS: A PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY USING RETAIL PHARMACY DATA

Lallemand, Philippe D.. A synthetic approach to forecasting fleet costs and earnings in the northeast regions of the United States

Lamoureux, Anne Maile. School psychologists' knowledge of family violence and their identification of children from violent homes

Lian, Peizhi. Physicochemical and microstructural changes in minced fish muscles as affected by cryoprotectants

Li, Edwin. Cadmium toxicity and random motility studies using marine dinoflagellates

Liu, Delong. Enhancing micro-organism images by estimating image background

Luo, Qing. Indium tin oxide thin film strain gages for use at elevated temperatures

Maria, Anton Hanna. Characterization and fractal analysis of volcanic particles: A multidimensional approach to interpretation of volcaniclastic deposits

McCarthy, Patrick Allen. Synthesis of conducting polymer complexes

Mele, Kate. Legal subjects: The tropological construction of "woman" in legal narratives

Meyer, Miriam I.. Effects of Reading Disability in Adolescents on Self-Concept and Future Expectations

Mills, Dana Scott. Examining the structural and philosophical positions of community-based organization practitioners

Morrow, Jennifer Ann. CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND ADULT HEALTH: PROTECTIVE FACTORS AS MEDIATING VARIABLES

Muench, John David. Periodic acoustic radiation from a low aspect ratio propeller

Noar, Seth Michael. Sexual negotiation and the influence of gender and power in heterosexually active men and women

Pan, Feng. Heat shock proteins and osmotic shock in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Paolucci, Judith Jean. Gender roles and science beliefs and their relationship to science interest

Pashtenko, Valentin H.. Embedded impediments to joint venture success: A new institutional theory perspective on negotiating with Russian principals

Peck, Myron Arms. Aspects of the physiology of early juvenile cod (Gadus morhua L.) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus L.)

Pineo, Lindsey Knight. The relationship between teacher perceptions of self, others, and instructional methods and intentions to teach HIV/AIDS prevention

Purinton, Elizabeth F.. The effects of the intensity of conflict and commitment on marketing channel partnership survival

Radin, Michael Alexander. The global stability, boundedness, and periodicity character of certain difference equations

Ricci, Vittorio. Characterization of interfacial fracture using strain fields

Saadi, Mary Ann. Some results on tree tolerance representations

Saha, Supratim. Optimal estimation of nonlinear and linear parameters in general linear models

Schwartz, Malia Lois. Anoxia tolerance and recovery in freshwater and marine turtles

Sparks, Rebecca L.. Rational functions whose zeros and poles are constrained by conditions arising in control

Srithongchai, Sriruk. Computer-aided design and manufacture of minimum-weight structures

Stram, Diana Lynn. Numerical modeling of estuarine transport, water quality, and the impact of shrimp mariculture in the Rio Chone estuary, Ecuador

Subbayya, Sankaranarayanan. Effect of grid non-orthogonality on the solution of shallow water equations using boundary-fitted grids

Sun, Che. A study of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in streamfunction space

Swann, Kathleen A.. The relationship between teachers' theoretical orientations to reading and their verbal feedback to students during oral reading

Tagi, Seref. Î²-Glucuronidase assay for the detection of Escherichia coli in foods

Treubig, James Michael Jr.. Novel approaches to the analysis and use of fullerenes using capillary electrophoresis and high-performance liquid chromatography

Van Dyke, Richard Kenneth. Traces of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century travel writing and the reproduction of knowledge(s)

Vincent, Harold Thomas II. Models, algorithms, and measurements for underwater acoustic positioning

Wood, Kay Helene. The effectiveness of transitional bilingual education on the reading performance of Cape Verdean students from Crioulo-speaking homes

Woo, Eunjoo. Cultural conditioning and mother/daughter conflicts in the development of identity and voice: The autobiographical fiction of Dorothy Allison, Wan-So Pak, and Maxine Hong Kingston

Wu, Su-Hsiu. Analysis of a proposed model for detection of magnetic fields by biological systems

Xia, Yashen. Experimental studies of microstructural evolution in mixed cationic/anionic surfactant systems

Yue, Guosen. Study of particle deposition in human airway models

Zhang, Jun. Algorithms for series coefficients

Zhu, Xiaobo. Computer simulation of inspiratory flow and particle deposition in human oral airway

Zwick, Detlev. The speed of money: Investment as consumption in age of computer-mediated communication

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

Ackley, Margaret Anne. Development and Initial Validation of a Structured Interview for the Detection of Malingered Mild Head Injury

Akay, Olcay. Unitary and Hermitian fractional operators and their extensions: Fractional Mellin transform, joint fractional representations and fractional correlations

Avery, David Edward. Induction of embryonic diapause in the calanoid copepod Acartia hudsonica

Bennett, Heather. Studies on the pedal gland and pedal epithelium of the protobranchiate bivalvia

Bickford, Donna M.. Acts of dissent: Literatures of coming to consciousness in the United States and Latin America

Bisack, Kathryn D.. Bioeconomics of seasonality, seasonal stock depletion and marine mammal protection

Bochain, Shelley Stone. Induced labor intervention for self-efficacy: A nursing intervention for women prone to an unpredictable labor pattern

Boyko, Christopher B.. Phylogenetic systematics of the Albuneidae (Crustacea: Anomura: Hippoidea), with the description of a new family

Boynton, Wentworth. Three papers that evaluate stock portfolio rebalancing and delisting influences on empirical asset pricing tests

Briden, William James. On some nonautonomous difference equations of the Max type

Bu, Dongsheng. Interactive self-modeling mixture analysis using principal component approach

Burkholder, Gary J.. Integrating theories and methods in assessing longitudinal change in heterosexual HIV risk among women

Catone, William Vincent. Teacher opinions about the nature and treatment of reading deficits in adolescents

Chang, Kaiguo. Synthesis and characterization of conducting polymer-inorganic composite materials

Clement, Gregory T.. Evaluation of transient and highly localized acoustic fields using acoustooptic phase contrast imaging

Cox Ashton, Grace. Universal Newborn Screening for Developmental Risk

Davis, Alan Joseph. Parasitic error compensation in cascaded sigma-delta modulators

De Gennaro, Nicholas. The engineering feasibility of a tidal siphon, and alternative to the jetty hardened coastal inlet

DeLaurentis Schultz, Dawn Marie. Dyspnea as a perceptual-interpretive response process: A qualitative inductive study of the concept in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

DeRosa, Susan L.. Encouraging a civic literacy: A pedagogy of self-reflection, agency, and action

de Sa, Paula F. G.. Formation of advanced glycation end products by glyceraldehyde and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate with proteins

Diamantides, Jerry. Relating objective and subjective measures of water quality in the travel cost method: An application to the Peconic Estuary System

Disch, William Burton. A Mediational Coping Model of Sociopersonal Well-Being and Quality of Life

Doherty Mary Ellen. Decision-making between nurse-midwives and clients regarding the formulation of a birth plan

Donald, J. J. Agar. Bioeconomic Implications of Modifying the Selectivity Properties of Fishing Gears

Douglass, Jill. Isotopic and trace element variations along the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (40 degrees-50 degrees S): An evaluation of regional plume-ridge interaction and large scale mantle heterogeneities

Ferszt, Ginette Gosselin. Studies of Grief: Narratives of Incarcerated Women Who Experienced the Death of a Significant Person While in Prison

Forsyth, Karyn Mary. The design and implementation of a depression prevention program

Fort, Timothy John. Interaction of neurotransmitters on the proboscis muscles of the North American channeled whelk Busycon canaliculatum

Foster, Jeffrey Matthew. Historical uncertainty and moral ambiguity in postwar America: An examination of selected black humor novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Freburger, Brian Edward. Principal components inverse: Comparisons and applications for rapidly adaptive detection

Ghebremeskel, Alazar Negusse. Hybrid magnetic field gradient, rotating wall device for enhanced colloidal magnetic affinity separations

Gomez, Jason Thomas. Penetration and induced damage evolution of concrete and granite when subjected to multiple projectile impacts